Next Generation SAS Storage Interface Ready for Prime Time SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2008 – The SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced today that the next generation of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is ready to enter the enterprise storage market after five years of research… Read more »
OEM customers sampling new 6Gb/s SAS controller and RAID-on-Chip ICs for interoperability and validation testing; speeding transition to complete 6Gb/s SAS ecosystem MILPITAS, Calif., September 9, 2008 – LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced sample shipments of its second-generation 6Gb/s SAS controller and RAID-on-Chip (ROC) ICs to major OEM customers. With over ten million SAS… Read more »
6Gb/s SAS — Industry Rollout Marty Czekalski (September 2008 – pdf) Industry Objectives: Preserve 3Gb/s SAS usage models Maintain 1.5Gb/s & 3Gb/s SATA/SAS compatibility Improve storage system RAS attributes Reduce the number of cabling connections options Double transfer rate Improve cost/performance & power/bandwidth ratio Reduced # of connections per Gb/s Eventual compatibility with 6Gb/s SATA… Read more »
6Gb/s SAS: An Evolutionary Step for SAS Technology (PDF) Storage demands have continued to escalate and now require more and more complex capabilities. Thus, making it necessary for the storage industry to look beyond 3Gb/s SAS and determine what steps need to be taken to incorporate additional improvements into the SAS protocol.This paper takes a… Read more »
Recent SAS Plugfest Featured Large-System Build with 3Gb/s SAS San Francisco, July 28, 2008 — The SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced today that the eighth Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) plugfest was held June 16-19, 2008, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).… Read more »
Serial Attached SCSI Establishes Its Position In The Enterprise (PDF) With the advent of 6Gb/s SAS, the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) architecture and technology is growing its presence within traditional and non-traditional enterprise environments. This white paper will explore the roots of SAS technology, why the SAS architecture is well suited to enterprise markets and… Read more »
New Line Rate Enhances Finisar’s Industry-Leading Xgig® Protocol Tester Solutions Sunnyvale, Calif. – April 23, 2008 – Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a global technology leader in fiber optic and test and measurement solutions for high-speed networks, today announced that it is shipping Xgig® Jammer 2.9, the industry’s first 6 Gb/s SAS error injector used for… Read more »
July 23-27 SAS Plugfest Featured SAS and SATA HDDs, Enclosures and Cabling Product Testing San Francisco, August 20, 2007 – The SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced today that the seventh Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) plugfest was held July 23-27, 2007, at the University of… Read more »